Free, Open Source WWII RTS

Free WWII RTS

A WWII RTS game

Spring: 1944 is an open source Real Time Strategy game set in the final
year of WWII. Think of it like a cross between Company of Heroes and
Supreme Commander, as designed by someone who played neither.

Written By S44 Team — September 9, 2014

Originally begun in 2002 as a single-unit modification for Total
Annihilation called Axis & Allies TA, the game has since grown well
beyond its original plans. The mod was completed in August of 2005, with
the main dev at that point (M_26_7 / SpikedHelmet) deciding it was time
to move on. Not long after, an early version of the Spring engine was
released — an engine designed to run content from Total Annihilation,
and Axis & Allies TA was soon ported by a fan, and then by FLOZi in
November of 2005. The port was then released in December 2006 with a few
bits of new content (mostly infantry models) and updated game play
elements.

After that release, AATA was reborn as Spring: 1944 – a complete
re-build from scratch, using all-new content and a new design
philosophy. While our release schedule has been a tad on the erratic
side, work has been progressing continuously ever since 2006, with
published builds going out approximately once or twice a year. The game
reached a nearly completed state between 2010-2011, and most of the work
since that point has focused on balance, a handful of new gameplay
mechanics, cleaning up the game’s internals and smoothing out the
experience for new players.

Insane battles

Fight massive battles on land, sea and air with hundreds of different
units and buildings, with one of the
8 already available factions
. The unique features of each faction, the huge number of units
potentially involved, and the wide variety of available combat theaters,
make each battle different.

The thing may quickly change on the battlefield!

Spring as you've never seen it before

Spring:1944 is based on the excellent
Spring RTS engine. However, the LUA API has been applied to boost it
with several graphic improvements, namely:

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion

Cook-Torrance microfacets shading

Gamma correction

Tone Mapping

Vignetting

Color aberration

Such boosted graphics stack may help you to experience a better
inmersion on the universe of the World War II, the biggest war scourged
human-beings.

You can learn more about enabling the graphic improvements
on the
wiki.